Looking for pure cash flow or strong appreciation buy and hold?

Well, most of the time (maybe all of the time) you're buying HUD houses "as-is" and you're not really using the presumed condition of the plumbing as a bargaining chip.

Fouad,mortgage closing costs: 2 to 5% This look okay especially if you include buying pointsproperty value appreciation: 3 to 6% I would go with 1 - 3% as it varies for neighborhood/area to even buildingscash on cash return: 2 to 4% This should be higher than your range.cap rate: 4 to 5% Not surerent growth: 3 to 5% 1-3% depending on the arearental property expenses growth: 2 to 4% This seems okayrepairs & maintenance cost: 5 to 10% This seems okaycapex: 1 to 3 % Not sureVacancy rate: 4 to 6% Depending on the area, I would put this to 1-2 months on average.

The other disadvantage of storage rental is they are generally slow to fill up, we are financing a new Construction self storage, and the lease up is estimated at 4 years.  1 suggestion would be to buy 1 container, lease it, then buy the subsequent container.

I am a real estate investor that just moved to Columbus from Miami looking to buy my second property within the next year.

It sounds like more people are beginning to leave the city for smaller towns both coastal and in the mountains.

Assuming the property is appraised at $650,000.00 I am hoping the equity will get my LVT to 75% eliminating the PMI, adding to the potential cash flow when I go to rent and then putting that cash flow + personal savings away to raise capital to buy another piece of property.I realize that in order to buy my next piece of property I will want to put down 20% to avoid PMI and a high mortgage but saving 20% for a piece of property in my area is going to take some time due to the high price ranges $500,000-$700,000.

This will help you meet lots of different people in the industry who might help you along your journey or at least share their own experiences that you can also learn from. 

Get it advertized and if people want to see the place, give the tenants 24 hours notice and you accompany perspective tenants.

I am trying to be more active and meet like kind real estate minded people.